When New Zealand’s borders closed in April 2020, Bungy co-founder Henry van Asch knew it would be some time before international visitors returned.
Something needed to be done – and quickly – to keep Queenstown’s tourism industry workers in the area, and close to the industry. That’s when the GSD – or Get Stuff Done – project, was born.
Spearheaded by Henry and his team at Bungy, hundreds of former tourism industry workers have since been deployed into new and existing community projects including the
Southern Lakes Sanctuary,
Tucker Beach reserve restoration project and the
Routeburn Dart Wildlife Trust.
One year on and Bungy is delivering workforces across all areas of these and other projects – from health and safety to admin, accounting to on the ground workers.